Signal's new numberless registration is Android beta only and costs a one-time fee. The zero-knowledge proof is not what replaces your phone number; it is what stops Signal linking your payment to your account.

BookOrbit gives you a browser reader, OPDS and two-way Kobo and KOReader sync across your whole library. Here is the Docker setup on a NAS, plus the permissions mistake that makes a scan succeed and find nothing.

Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth built a conformant Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac mini in about a month, largely with LLM coding agents. It ships in Gravity Linux, a Fedora remix forked from Asahi Linux over that exact question.

ZCode, Z.ai's GLM coding app, was caught uploading entire Git histories in September 2026 and fixed it within days. Here is how to audit and contain every other agent that reads your repos.

Miri wrote every environment variable into target/, so caching that directory in GitHub Actions could hand your secrets to a pull request. Fixed in the 22 September 2026 nightly. Clear your caches and rotate anyway.

Omarchy shipped a default that put your user in the docker group, which is root by another name. What actually happened, and why 4.0.1 matters.

Four Linux kernel local root bugs went public on 18 September 2026 with working exploits. Checked 29 September: Debian trixie is patched, bookworm still is not for TUNderflow, and Ubuntu has shipped nothing yet.

Five-minute UFW firewall setup for your homelab, sane defaults, SSH/HTTPS allow, LAN-only rules, and verification. The exact config I use.

CVE-2026-87902 lets an unauthenticated request include a local PHP file through page template resolution. It is on CISA's exploited list, and the fix is WordPress 7.1.2 or the backport for your branch.

NPUs are showing up in more mini PCs, but are they actually useful for homelab AI workloads like Frigate object detection?

tailcat lets you pipe data between machines using Tailscale's encrypted WireGuard transport without needing a Tailscale account or coordination server.

No port forwarding. No VPN server to maintain. Just secure remote access to every device in my homelab from anywhere in the world via Tailscale's mesh.

OpenNMC is an open-source card for APC SmartSlot UPS units that gives you NUT and MQTT monitoring without paying for APC's pricey network management cards.

Jellyfin 12.0 is out, and its database upgrade is one-way. Here's how to move your Docker or Portainer stack over safely.

Forgejo 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 LTS fix a critical remote code execution bug, CVE-2026-89094. If you self-host Forgejo, this update is not optional.

Stop paying $10/month for Notion. BookStack gives you a self-hosted wiki for free, perfect for YouTube scripts, video ideas, and homelab documentation.

Block ads and trackers on every device with Pi-hole on Proxmox, 20-minute setup, plus the gotchas I hit live so you don't troubleshoot blindly.

Host five sites on one box: Proxmox + Docker + Caddy as a reverse proxy + Cloudflare for DNS and TLS. Full architecture and the Caddyfiles I actually use.

UFW blocks ports; Fail2Ban blocks the attackers trying to get through them. The exact jail.local, custom Ghost-login filter, and recidive setup I run.

A Discord bot that detects its own bugs and fixes them using a three-tier AI fallback: local Phi-3 → Groq cloud → Claude API. The whole architecture, with code.

Stop using AI as a search engine. Here's a structured methodology for using LLMs to actually understand hard technical topics.

Filling a 10-inch mini rack is the easy part. Here are the accessories that make it actually usable.

Ghost CMS publishes a new post → n8n pings Discord and welcomes new members automatically. Zero code, zero subscription fees, all running on my homelab.

Powering a Raspberry Pi through the GPIO 5V pins skips critical protection circuitry and can silently damage your board.

Cheap streaming sticks can ship with pre-installed malware, shady data practices, and no security updates. Here is what to check before you plug one in.

PCIe Gen6 is coming, but Gen5 NVMe is already here. Here is what both generations mean for homelab AI workloads and storage decisions right now.

Jailbroken Kindles can run Tailscale, and the tricks that make it work apply to any constrained edge device on your network.

Streaming keeps getting pricier and your favourite shows keep disappearing. Here is how to run your own media server with Jellyfin, whether you have an old Windows laptop, a Proxmox host, a Linux box or Docker.

ASUS is bringing the NUC 16 family powered by Intel Panther Lake, and it looks like a strong pick for a small-footprint Proxmox or homelab server.

A production Discord bot that monitors itself, auto-restarts on failure, and survives NAS crashes — Docker on a TerraMaster NAS, zero downtime, maximum reliability.

Block IPs that attacked someone else's server yesterday. Install CrowdSec on your homelab, share community blocklists, and harden everything in 10 minutes.

Proxmox VE now officially supports ARM, and that changes what's possible for Raspberry Pi clusters and edge homelab builds.

Self-host n8n in 10 minutes plus 10 ready-to-steal workflows — Discord pings on new Ghost posts, weekly member digests, URL→Claude content briefs, and more.

Skip Vagrant and manage local VMs directly with KVM and virsh on Debian for a faster, leaner homelab workflow.

Skip the bloated NAS software and build a lean ZFS storage server on plain Ubuntu using just the tools you actually need.

Keep your homelab online when your ISP fails by adding a second WAN gateway to OPNsense with automatic failover.

True 3-2-1 backups for your homelab: pull-mode PBS snapshots for every VM and LXC, encrypted Restic offsite to Backblaze B2, scheduled and verified.

Cryptography isn't just for academics. Here are the core concepts every homelab builder needs to understand to keep their stack secure.

Kokoro gives you high-quality, CPU-friendly text-to-speech you can self-host and wire into n8n or Discord bots without touching a cloud API.

Self-host a searchable document vault with OCR — official Docker compose (Postgres + Tika + Gotenberg), SMB consume folder for scanners, optional local AI tags.

Run a Telegram bot without a dedicated server or third-party libraries, using only Telegram's native serverless platform and raw webhooks.

A phishing domain less than an hour old gets tested against three popular DNS security resolvers to see which one blocks it first.

Open-source, cross-platform AirDrop alternative for your homelab. No cloud, no accounts, no logs — just LAN file transfers that actually work everywhere.